I was expecting the Radio Dept.’s Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002-2010 to serve as a Belle & Sebastian Push Barman-style compilation, but instead, it’s sort of a greatest hits for their multitude of singles and EPs. So we get “Pulling Our Weight,” but not that EP’s other four tracks; Annie Laurie‘s title track and “Taget,” but not the spiky “Falafel.”

The absence of certain songs in the 2011-due set seems weirder given the presence of a number of album tracks (“Ewan,” “The Worst Taste in Music,” “David,” etc.) also, yes, released as singles, so this is half a little disappointing, half encouragement to pick up their various (extremely worthwhile) EPs. The full track list after the jump. Oh, and by the way, the band is playing the El Rey on February 16 and I am already waiting in line.

01 Liebling 02 We Would Fall Against the Tide 03 You and Me Then? 04 Peace of Mind 05 Tåget 06 Slottet 07 What You Sell 08 Mad About the Boy 09 Closing Scene 10 Messy Enough 11 The Idle Urban Contemporaries 12 All About Our Love 13 On Your Side 14 The One